Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

Matt Minuti matt.minuti at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 14:06:55 EST 2015


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Matt Minuti <matt.minuti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Aren't there IP blocks reserved for exactly this kind of VPN use?
>>
>
>   I've never seen reserved public IP ranges for this sort of thing.  There
> are reserved block ranges for private networks, but if I understood the OP,
> the point to reserve a public block of IP addresses, and use them as
> private addresses, specifically to avoid IP subnet conflicts.
>
>   Since the private IP ranges are free for all, it's very easy to be on a
> private network, and try to VPN into your own network, and have a conflict
> as the remote network uses the same private numbers as yours.
>
>   If you understand, then I apologize, not trying to sound condescending
> but it may come across that way if you already knew that and I was missing
> a point.   :-)
>
>
No offence taken, I slightly misread the request. Anyways, I was thinking
of the RFC1918 blocks, basically exactly what John suggested.

Still, IPv6 seems like the perfect solution for this...
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